This painting was done for a regular column I did called The Wild File
for Outside Magazine. It was a great job. Readers would send in weird
questions about the natural world. The question that generated this image
went something like, Do cows really predict the weather by pointing
themselves in a particular direction? I must confess that I was woefully
unenlightened in this area of animal husbandry, but I quickly came to the
conclusion that psychic animals are by far the best kind of animals and I
hope with all my heart that this bit of farmer lore is 100% true. One of
the nice things about doing this column was that the editors would send
me the questions, but as a result of time constraints they rarely sent me
the answers. I was left to make up my own conclusions and that usually
resulted in a much more compelling image. I think the bull is one of my
better nonsense images.